New York City Environment

Pollution continues to pose an enormous threat to residents of urban cities worldwide. In the August 2008 Monthly Update, it is stated that approximately 800,000 deaths each year can be attributed to outdoor air pollution, making pollution the single most harmful environmental hazard to human health in urban areas (Kallman). The fact that pollution kills hundreds of thousands of people each year alone portrays just how dangerous living in these conditions can be. Kallman writes about a study which proves an increase in upper respiratory diseases, cardiovascular mortality, respiratory mortality, and low birth weights when exposed to air pollutants (August 2008: Monthly Update). These can be very serious diseases and complications which, when contracted, can lead to death or very serious illnesses. There

New York City is the place where a person can be intimate with thousands of people all at once, without having to talk or interact with them at all. Whether a person is standing in a crowded subway cart or simply walking around Times Squares or Grand Central, it is almost impossible to get around the city without having to see or engage with another person. New York City blends the concepts of privacy and intimacy, creating an environment where one can be immersed and connected, in what E. B. White describes, as a compact arena comprising of gladiators, evangelists, actors, traders and merchants, yet also feel separated, or apathetic, to the city and its inhabitants as well. Whether it is the “eighteen inches” described by White or simply sitting next to a stranger on the subway, what makes New York City iconic and different from other cities is how its residents – a mixture of locals that grew up in the city, the tourists that visit it, and newly arriving residents from across the world – interact with one another in respect to city life. If a person tries, he or she can avoid talking to anyone all day, despite the multitudes of people he or she encounters. On the other extreme, he or she can also get the numbers, or contact information, of hundreds of people as well. In this perspective, New York City has not changed much since White wrote his book Here is New York – New York City still represents and embodies the concept of what White describes as a blend of privacy and

New York City’s old slum neighbourhood, the Five Points, was notoriously known for its vice and crimes. The first organized crime group in New York City was the Forty Thieves which was led by Edward Coleman, started in 1825, in the back of a grocery store. The Dead Rabbits were an Irish gang in the Five Points area, and are most known for the riot they caused in 1857. The Eastman Gang were a Jewish group in the Five Points area, which began in the late nineteenth century, and were the rival of the Five Points Gang. The Five Points Gang was another group, started by Paul Kelly and included future famous mobsters. In Five Points, where most of New York City’s crime started, it also started some of history’s most notorious gangs, and mobsters.

As the exploration of the industrial development and increased speed of the urban sprawl in Beijing, many severe environmental issues attribute mainly to the anthropocentric activities have been come out of the scene. One of them is the air pollution. Air pollution has been regarded as the most severe environment issue in China since it has already threatened to physical health, especially for the respiratory tract and lung. “In January 2013, Beijing experienced historical heavy air pollution. In this particular month, very few days were observed with blue sky.” (Lijian Han et.al., 2015) According to the analysis of the driving factors, “the population grew fast, and energy consumption and the number of vehicles increased rapidly” (Ju Zhang et.al., 2010), these factors add together can make the air quality worse than any one of them separately can. Firstly, it has been an undoubted truth that more and more people originally lived in rural has been moved to core urban of Beijing since there are more opportunities in there. Therefore, the huge explosion of urban population with more energy release and more CO2 exhalation is seen as an inevitably primary factor causing the bad air quality. What’s more, as the population

Although thought to be “not a big problem” and “under control” by most people, pollution is making its way in being a serious and an unforgiving threat to society. Pollution a topic everyone hears and knows exists. What they don’t know is how serious of a problem it is already becoming. Many health issues are being reported now that are linked to air pollution and even the most severe weather places have encountered are linked to air pollution also. By society, not fully being aware of the true threat that pollution is making, it will only become a growing threat that they will be encountering.

suit. They got their car that was parked in the parking structure and went off to go explore the new city that they would hopefully call home for the rest of their lives. They found one of the best pizza places to eat in New York and sat down to eat because it was really packed and from the outside there was people standing outside. After they went to go check out where the mighty brooklyn dodgers played which was a day that they had a game against the giants, their rivals. They weren't gonna see the game but they pulled to the side right in front of the stadium while the game was going on. You could feel the energy of the crowed going off inside that way they could get their game. They got off the car and you could see inside the stadium

When I first examined the photo of the construction workers in New York City, my impression was they were passing something heavy like in a bucket brigade line. I saw their shoulders were curved over and their hands were straining which all the visuals cues were in place telling me they were working.

A Ghanaian and founder of Smart Youth Volunteers Foundation, Lailah Gifty Akita said “Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.” People’s self-centered personality had caused the pollution, and if people think more about the city and implicate to help then people can get rid of the pollution. So, as the city that suffers from one of the most serious pollutions, Beijing air quality is a getting worse every year because of the dearth of citizen support. Also, Beijing population is increasing and as people increase so do the number of cars. Unfortunately, the amount of trees shrinks, and the Beijing government cannot reduce the use of coal that is unnecessary. Consequently, Beijing suffers from air pollution as a result of high population density, commercial use of coal, and lack of citizen involvement.

Beijing, the capital of China, since the development of industrialization and economy, the environmental problems emerge gradually. Especially air pollution is becoming a huge problem today. Air pollution is the harmful matters including particulates and biological molecules introduced into Earth’s atmosphere which is harmful to both human health and natural environment. This essay will firstly illustrate the main causes of air pollution in Beijing, including natural causes and man-made causes, and then outline some effects of this problem.

The third problem you need to address is hygiene in New York City. New York city is the main hub of the country but the cleanliness of its streets is not up to the mark. On the garbage day, Broadway will smell badly as the garbage bags are arranged on the platforms. This is the genesis of many diseases. My friend had suffered a hygiene related disease and it resulted in reducing the mind and body coordination. If these kinds of diseases continue to spread, there would be thousands of diseases like this in the next few years. To avoid this, the city should be clean by clearing the garbage as soon as possible. Every street should be assigned a specific timeframe between ten to twenty minutes for the garbage truck to pick up the garbage bags.

The Statue of Liberty, the most enduring symbol of New York City - and indeed, the USA - can trace its unlikely origins to a pair of Parisian Republicans. In 1865, political activist Edouard René Lefebvre de Laboulaye and sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi went to a dinner party and came away with the notion of building a monument honoring the American conception of political freedom, which they would then donate to the Land of Opportunity. Twenty-one years later, on 28 October 1886, the 151ft (45m) Liberty Enlightening the World, modeled on the Colossus of Rhodes, was finally unveiled in New York Harbor before President Grover Cleveland and a harbor full of tooting ships. It's a 354-step climb

There are two main reasons I have applied to NYU. The first is because New York City is my favorite place in the world. The first time I came to New York was with my mom. We had taken a bus from Vermont to Massachusetts and then into New York. The bus ride was long and uncomfortable, but I was as bouncy and ecstatic. When I stepped out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal and on to 8th Avenue, there was only one word that could accurately describe the feeling; home. Even though I was only able to be in the city for seventeen hours, every minute felt like a lifetime. My mom and I spent most of the day in the Theatre District, except for a quick trip uptown to the Hamilton Grange National Memorial. It was uptown that I figured out there was nowhere

One of countless examples is environmental damage. Through this issue, mega-cities like Delhi which is the capital city of economically developing India suffer constantly with problems like smog. Due to New Delhi being blanketed in thick smog, their very own chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, has labelled the mega-city as a “gas chamber”. This major problem leads to severe consequences which were suffered at the hands of the Delhi citizens who were choking, rendering them unable to breathe properly. It is clear that the smog that floats above cities is the most obvious form of air pollution and in turn, environmental pollution. In megacities like Mexico City, cars are indeed the main source of pollutants and an effective way to combat this problem is introducing electric cars which do not run on petrol or diesel. Electric cars reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions where common fuel would emit a large quantity of carbon dioxide and additional gases. If these gases were to pollute the air, it could contribute to the greenhouse effect and thus, lead to global warming. One pollutant related to climate change and is in actual fact an element of smog, is

Humans have been innovating their surrounding for thousands of years. The agricultural and industrial revolution have been seen competing side by side all throughout history. Urbanization has become a tool and weapon to society throughout the importance of population growth and environmental concerns. “Human activities associated with land uses, including agricultural activities, land development, industrial discharge, residential sewage, and urban runoff can cause surface water degradation, so land use planning and management is very important for water environment protection.” (Spatial Variations…in the Watersheds of Northern Georgia, USA) Urbanization is the process where an increasing percentage of population lives in cities and suburbs. This process is often linked to the effects brought on by industrialization and modernization. According to UN-Habitat, 70% of the world’s constantly growing population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050; and of that 81.6% of the United States population will be categorized as urban. (UN-Habitat)

Throughout human history, cities have been constructed along bodies of water. Such as rivers, deltas, and coastlines, which provide water sources, transportation routes, and power. These water sources have been modified to meet urban needs, which is often at the expense of local aquatic ecosystems surrounding the city. “The concentration of transportation and industry in urban areas also alters biogeochemical cycles, which significantly affects the flow of chemical elements and certain compounds” (Jiang) Metropolitan centres often concentrate sources of CO2, emissions and other various greenhouse gases and pollutants, which can heavily induce an imbalance of air quality in neighboring ecosystems. In more populous cities, such as Mexico city, major roadways have thousands of cars on them at one time and traffic congestion in megacities contributes to a concentration of emissions along nearby highways, beltways and typically in the central business district in a downtown area.